Coverall



COVERALL Filed April 12, 1937 Zhwentor Walter-- L Abe Z,

zsu g g (It rneu Patented Jan. 4, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE 2 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in garments, and particularly to coveralls or overalls for men.

One object of my improvements is to supply a combination jacket and trousers to be worn over other clothing, possessing means for adjustably compressively conforming the garment to the body of the wearer, especially in the region of the chest and waist thereof, for convenience, and

to make it possible for the wearer to make selfadjustments of the garment in that particular when it is worn, and whereby a single sized pattern may be conformed to the body within a range of larger or smaller sizes, thus adapting it to be cut in certain standard sizes, and obviating the necessity of carrying many different sizes in stock, or for use by various classes of users.

Another object of my improvements is to shape and fashion certain open top pockets on the garment to contract the upper part of the same by gores or gussets, whereby articles deposited in the pockets are held from escape when the body is bent forwardly, and to keep these pockets when unoccupied, flatwise upon the garment Without sagging outwardly.

I have accomplished these objects by the means which are shown in the accompanying drawing, also described and claimed herein.

s Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the flattened garment, with parts broken away. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of said garment.

This garment is designed for convenient wea and use by persons requiring a covering for cloth- 35 ing, and. constructed in a manner for self-fitting the person, particularly about the chest or waist adjustably, so that but a few sizes are required to be kept on sale or sup-plied to employes or others of factories or the like.

40 This garment comprises a jacket coat I whos lower part is stitched to the upper part or trousers 2, or otherwise fastened, but in some cases the whole garment may be constructed of the parts I and 2 separately and otherwise associated and 45 coupled in wearing use.

The coat I may be sleeved or sleeveless as desired. The trousers likewise may be differently shaped and proportioned for special uses. The coat may have a collar or be collarless as shown.

50 The trousers 2 may have front positioned and laterally open pockets I4, gored at the open ends or otherwise contracted to cause them to lie flat when unoccupied, and to closely bind or hold their contents such as tools or other things to 55 prevent their escape when the body is bent or sloped forwardly or lateraly. The narrowing, gore or gusset I40! at the entrance of a pocket is shown in Fig. 1, where the material of the trousers there is broken away.

The coat or jacket part I may have overlapping 5 margins as at 3, and preferably the margins are secured together by separable pairs of fasteners 4 and 5, or otherwise. The coat has one or more open top pockets 6, each having a gore or gusset I to narrow its mouth for the purpose above 10 stated relative to the trouser pockets I4. The rear pockets I5 on the trousers are not gored.

Just above the bottom seam connecting the lower portion of the coat I to the upper part of the trousers 2, a belt-like strap II is fastened 10 across the medial rear part of the coat by cross stitching I la as shown in Fig. 2 and has projecting end parts or tabs long enough to be carried about the sides of the coat as shown in Fig. 1. Shorter tabs I2 are fastened on the front of the 20 coat and carry loop buckles I3 fastened thereon to receive the tabs of the strap II, whereby the tabs II and I2 may be secured together releasably to tighten or loosen the same in less or more c'ompressively securing the waist part of the coat upon the person, adjustably.

Above and positioned at the chest part of the coat I other and similar pairs of tabs 8 and 9, are end secured to the side portions thereof, but not connected in the rear by a continuous belt body, the forward tabs having similar looped buckles I0 in which the tabs 8 may be more or less widely separably connected together, to more or less adjustably compress the coat at that location around the chestof the wearer. It is obvione that either or both of sets of tabs may be adjusted as desired to fit the coat about the chest and waist of the wearer. When the garment substantially fits the wearer initially, the pairs of tabs may all be left unbuckled, or either pair of them, or a single pair on either side. This furnishes considerable latitude in the mounting of the coat to be conformed to the wearer, doing away with uncomfortable tightness, or on the other hand, unnecessary looseness of the gar- 4,5 ment, for a convenient range of sizes, whereby but a few sizes may be kept in stock for distribution.

I claim:

1. A coverall garment, comprising a vest part and a trousers part united in the rear and each part open in front, the vest part being divided vertically and having releasable securing means between its said divided parts, the waist portion of said vest part having at each of its opposite 5 sides an upper horizontally spaced pair of tabs, and having at each of its opposite sides a lower horizontally spaced pair of tabs, the upper and lower pairs of tabs on each side being unconnected and'these pairs being relatively widely spaced apart vertically, and means for releasably adjustably connecting each pair of tabs together, the assembly of tabs being adapted for adjustable gathering of the material of said garment between one or more of said pairs of tabs, to permit of adjustably smoothly fitting the garment at front and rear upon the body and waist of the wearer.

2. A coverall garment, comprising a sleeved vest and trousers united in the rear with both opening in front along a median'vertical line, both having releasable fastening means between their respective parts, the vest having a horizontally arranged pair of tabs at each of its sides below the sleeves thereof, and. also having horizontally arranged tabs at its sides spaced below 

